Sophie Thun

Between Light and Wall
Museum der Moderne Salzburg

Bodies and Negatives

Sophie Thun’s (b. Frankfurt/Main, 1985; lives and works in Vienna and Berlin) self-portraits have charted a distinctive space of representation brimming with antagonistic dynamics and interrogate how the self is constructed in it. Using her own body as an instrument, she questions established forms of female representation. Methods like cutting, splitting, and multiplication and elaborate superimpositions created in the darkroom let the photographer render identity as an ongoing process and malleable. Meanwhile, Thun is consistently present within the frame as the author of her analog photographs: in some, she confidently gazes into the camera, remote shutter in hand; in others, she is represented by her photographic equipment.

Between Light and Wall is Sophie Thun’s second book released by DISTANZ. It showcases new works and documents Thun’s first solo museum exhibition at the Museum der Moderne Salzburg. With contributions by Jule Govrin, Daniel Muzyczuk, Marijana Schneider, and Magdalena Vuković and a foreword by Harald Krejci.

Sophie Thun’s first monograph came out in 2022. More infromation